i've covered city government, i've covered county government. i'll tell you as someone who has watched this nonsense happen, it is ridiculous. the problem in this country is that we have 50 different rules because it's done by state. then once you go in those 50 states, then you have different counties. part of the problem, you have federal elections, congressional races, senatorial races, presidential race, and then you have your state and local race. this is the start of -- a starting point, if you will. so if attorney general eric holder had come out with eight or ten different ideas, folks would have been going nuts saying, no, that's too much. it's a way to begin the process, because it is convoluted, in some places, ashleigh, it's so crazy. if you literally move from one apartment, right next-door to the next one, your voter registration is ineligible. that's how crazy it is. >> david, let me ask you this. you suggest that voter registration is just one little plank in a big problem. and yet so many people, within hours and the next days a